415 Quotes by Bobby Bowden

We will keep the same goals and those are to win the ACC and compete for a national championship.

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

That is definitely a factor, being off this long and how will your kids respond. That you may not know until the ball game.

A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.

Both teams are going to find out a lot about their quarterback. It's a tough start because both (quarterbacks) are going against good defenses.

He's got tools. He's fast, tall, rangy, great desire, great human being.

It's not fun because I'm going to hurt him if I beat him, and he's going to hurt me if he beats me. That part of it is not fun.

Both teams played as well as they could play.

I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly influence both at home and church. There was no alcohol and no smoking at our house. That was the way a Bowden was supposed to live. My dad always told me to represent the Bowden name in a respectful manner.